Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 10 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
The inscription is a palimpsest: traces of a former text are visible. |
The inscription is scarcely readable, as it was written on a previously erased text, of which the editors can read the first (Ydʿʾl) and the last (Yṯʿn) words, on the right side of the current text. |
English | |
1 Yṯʿʾmr Byn son of S¹mhʿly, 2 mukarrib of Sabaʾ, walled ʿrrtm. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 45, w. 129 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Asāḥil |
Ancient site | ʿrrtm |
Geographical area | wādī Raġwān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
Notes | The stone is part of the S-E city walls. |
Link to site record |
Robin and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980: 125-127, pl. 7/a | Robin, Christian J. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980. Les inscriptions de al-Asâḥil, ad-Durayb et Ḫirbat Saʿûd. (Mission Archéologique Française en République Arabe du Yémen: prospection des Antiquités Préislamiques, 1980). Raydān, 3: 113-182. |